Gospel Coach Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Tom Wood and Jim Moon, Jr. work through a new case study and remind you how to fill in the Adaptive Coaching skills worksheet. Download the Adaptive Coaching quadrant spreadsheet for this podcast. The SKMe worksheet is focused on helping the Coachee. * Download the Adaptive Coaching quadrant spreadsheet for this podcast at https://www.cmmnet.org/podcasts/podcast/series

In this episode, Dr. Tom Wood and Jim Moon, Jr. work through a new case study and remind you how to fill in the Adaptive Coaching skills worksheet. * Download the Adaptive Coaching quadrant spreadsheet for this podcast at www.cmmnet.org. The SKMe worksheet is focused on helping the Coachee. 

"Adaptive Coaching" is understanding that the way you coach someone is multi-dimensional. In this episode, Dr. Tom Wood and Jim Moon, Jr. work through a case study and remind you how to fill in the Adaptive Coaching skills worksheet. *Download the Adaptive Coaching quadrant spreadsheet for this podcast from www.cmmnet.org

The world is going through a time of unprecedented culture shift and the speed of change will only continue to accelerate. It is affecting business, governments, human relationships, and churches. 

Antipathy towards God, His church, and His kingdom, makes us cry out for spiritual awakening. Many pastors and their spouses are experiencing isolation, decision fatigue, spiritual decline, physical exhaustion as well as marriage and family strains. So, how does a Gospel Coach meet their Coachee at the point of their need?

Most people would say that “Coaching” people is non-directive, but to say that all the answers are within a personal is very human-centered. Asking a lot of questions during Gospel Coaching and sharing your story with your Coachee is needed for the conversation and relational aspect of the relationship.

As Gospel-centered leaders, we should be the most prolific in understanding that we don’t rely on a methodically driven approach to coaching.

Preaching moralism is not a way in which we get grace. How do you Coach your leader through their teaching/preaching? What are some of the biggest challenges your Coachee faces in teaching/preaching? As a Coach, how to you help your Coachee think about how to preach to the heart and not just behavioral issues? Personal identity can be caught up in preaching so we need to be careful how we approach talking to our Coachee about their preaching.

As a Gospel Coach, how do we recognize if there is a spiritual dynamic or spiritual attack going on? What are some diagnostic questions to ask? How do you help your Coachee work through the Gospel 3D model to help them lean on the means of grace when they feel under attack? What are ways that we can recognize when it’s an attack from the enemy and how do we discern that from regular struggles?

Setting a clear and concise objective during a Gospel Coach Training session is one of the hardest parts of the whole conversation. Why is it a challenge for a leader to create a clear, concise objective? How do you help a leader you’re coaching move out of your normal routine to focus on objectives?

Do you help your Coachees find ways to connect to the gospel? The gospel is a story, and in that story God is sovereign. The choices of other people can never overrule the sovereignty of God. How do you help your Coachees learn gospel orientation?

Should you be encouraging your leader to implement the Gospel Coaching model in a church staff? How can you utilize the tools in coaching with a church staff? Can the Foundations class give church staff a sense of renewal?

In CMM’s Continue Workshop, we review the types of relationships needed for people to flourish in life. What are some key relationships that help you flourish in life? What does it look like to pursue intentional relationships with people in the church or other pastors?

Helping your Coachee create clear objectives and strategies is important. The objective is the “What”. What do they need to do to accomplish their mission? The Coaching Conversation should give your leader margin to think through their steps and strategies.

Leaders are often facing decisions and questions that are bigger than their experience and wisdom. They need someone to help with practical issues. A Gospel Coach helps create space to think clearly and give wise reinforcement, and how to turn that wise strategy into a plan. Gospel Coaching uses day to day issues with being a pastor or leader as a laboratory for understanding what the gospel is doing in the leader's heart.

The past few years of ministry have led many leaders to burn out and questioning their position in the church. Many leaders are leaving the ministry because they are worn out. What helps leaders stay in ministry? Who helps you turn back to the gospel when you’ve lost your way or feel discouraged?

Prayer is built into the Coaching Conversation because of how important and dynamic prayer is to our entire conversation. Prayer is vital from the beginning to the end of the Coaching Conversation. The Holy Spirit must be actively involved in the conversation.

To be effective, a Gospel Coach must experience gospel renewal in their own life. The Gospel Story isn’t about what you must do to get God, but what God has done to get you. Coaching from your weaknesses and not your strengths helps you remember to rely on God and not yourself. Your heart motivations and driving force should be about Jesus Christ.

A launch team is key to starting a church. What should a Gospel Coach do to help a Church Planter Coachee talk through building a launch team? As a Coach, you want to make sure that the Coachee can communicate to you about the people that form their launch team and who needs to be on their launch team.

Gospel Coaching is a multi-dimensional conversation. Listening deeply is not a skill that gets taught well, but asking good questions produces good answers. To ask good questions, you must be able to listen to what your Coachee is struggling with. Good coaches have a collection of good questions that move the conversation along. Heart oriented questions illicit emotional types of answers. How do we apply Adaptive Coaching to our conversations?

Adaptation is key when we take Gospel Coaching global. Different cultures contextualize Gospel Coaching in their own way. Cross-culture training is not a methodology, it’s the application of the gospel to an expression of discipleship we call Coaching.

The four bridges that Leaders need to cross with people are the Likeability Factor, Mission Factor, Ability Factor, Participation Factor. In a similar way, in Coaching there must be good chemistry between the Coach and the Coachee. Effective coaching relationships cross these four bridges.

What are the similarities and differences between “Coaching” and “Mentoring”? Both can feel like friendships and both are intentional relationships. Coaching is more of a dance, of asking questions and getting the Coachee to see what God’s is leading them to do. Coaching is sitting, listening, and drawing out. It’s helping people navigate their course. The Coach is there to help a Coachee uncover what going on in their life.

What does a Gospel Coach do when a Coachee is questioning his Call? What does the death and resurrection of Jesus have to do with someone’s Calling? How do you coach someone through a Calling exercise?

A Gospel Coach understands that a key way that adults learn is through experience and evaluating what’s happening in their lives and ministry. Remember to diagnose through asking questions.

As Gospel Coaches, we need to dig deeper and ask the questions that no one else would dare to ask.

How do you help your Coachee get through disapproval and conflict in their ministry? Remind them that their highest sense of comfort comes from the in-dwelling person of the Spirit and the position we know we have with a Father who says, “I approve of you.”